The alarm went off at 4am this morning and i was glad to hear it beeping its nut off, time to go fishing. Being a FIFO worker i usually hate this time of the morning but not today. I go and kick my brother Chris who slept on the couch, made a coffee, loaded up the boat and away we went.

Got to Woodie Point, boat in by 5am still pitch black. Turned the key on to kick the 50hp 2 stroke into action and surprisingly she burst into life first try. Slowly made our way out of the sound which was dead flat, lack of light meant our trip was slow but we where well ahead of time and i couldnt help but think that everything had gone according to plan so far. My brother was chirping his head off as usual, apparently he was as confident as i was that a nice dhui or baldy was gonna land on the deck.

Got to a likely spot i had marked on a chart that iv been pouring over lately, baited up a mullie and dropped it to the sea floor and watched my brother do the same thing. Within minutes my rod buckelled over, reel screaming, me delighted! Getting control of the fish my brother starts with the predictions "Dhui bet ya its F'n big Dhui", what ever it was its gonna be pretty big i tell him. After about 10 minutes, a few lazy slow runs back down to decent depth we see the silver of my first ever Samson fish. Its a funny feeling of slight dissappointment and happiness, hoping for my first dhui or baldy, instead i get my first Sambo. Didnt take me long to be swinging high fives and smiling from ear to ear after catching my first ever Sambo.

Things got quite for about an hour before we moved about 500m to a marked lump and again the first drop was hit by a massive run. This fight was a little different, the fish although smaller went on some extremely powerful runs, my brother shouting out "there's bloody smoke come out ya reel, it gonna catch fire" haha. After a few explosive runs the fish came to the surface easily, quick photo with sambo number 2 and back it went to fight another day.

A few more drift over the lump resulted in nothing so i made the call to go sit on the FFB for a couple of hours before heading home. The FFB was the calmest iv ever seen it and we decided to sit right on the shallow part of the reef which resulted in a big variety of fish landed, big skippy, the usual wrasse, a wierd gold snook looking thing (gold with a couple of horizontal bars  on it's back and a nasty set of chompers), 2x BA's first was 38cm which i kept and the second was smaller but didnt release well, even tried the release weight but a few seconds after retrieving the weight the fish came barrelling back to the surface so i kept him. Back at the ramp by 12:30 very happy, I'm still without a Dhui or Baldy but i can tick the Sambo of the list and Damn they are fun to catch.

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